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Perl 6 Implementaion Rakudo Star Released 0

Submitted by rnddim on Thursday July 29 2010, @03:14PM

rnddim writes "The Perl 6 implementation Rakudo Star has been released today for 'early adopters'. This release of Rakudo is different from the normal monthly compiler releases in that is it bundled with a draft of a Perl 6 book, and several modules. It's not complete, and it's not as fast as it should be, but Rakudo in its current state is proving to be usable and useful. Rakudo Star releases will come monthly or as major features or bugfixes are made. It is available for download at github.com."

Rakudo Star - a "early adopter" dist. of Perl 6-> 0

Submitted by acid06 on Thursday July 29 2010, @01:02PM

acid06 writes "
Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.

The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads."
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Rakudo Star - "early adopter" Perl 6, released-> 4

Submitted by masak on Thursday July 29 2010, @07:49AM

masak writes "The developers of Rakudo, an actively developed implementation of Perl 6, give you their first "Rakudo Star" release. Quoting the announcement: 'These "Star" releases are intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.' It's been a long wait, and not everything is in place yet, but Perl 6 is definitely feeling less vapor-y today."
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